The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part IV: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The ordeal of the Greek left has demonstrated the limits of the state-centric approach to social change – and the dream of a return to a fair and inclusive capitalism lies in tatters.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part III: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
From the ERT broadcaster shutdown, to the failure to support the Vio.Me factory cooperative, to the privatization of Thessaloniki's water, the Syriza government has broken promises and missed opportunities.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part II: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The Greek grassroots movements have molded themselves into a genuine constituent power – using radical imagination to birth new institutions, new social relations and new approaches to organizing social life.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part I: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The relationship of the Syriza party with the Greek grassroots movements resisting austerity was a marriage of convenience that has ended in broken promises, lost opportunities and a bitter divorce.
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Exclusive: Greece's Former President of Parliament On Why Syriza Party Broke Its Pledge to the People
“They are trying to bury us – but they forget when you bury a seed it is only going to flourish,” says Zoe Konstantopoulou, the former President of Greek Parliament.
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A Pyrrhic Victory In Greece: Why Tsipras's Re-Election Means "Austerity With a Human Face"
Skyrocketing abstention from voting, social demobilization and an impending wave of harsh austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s "pragmatic" win at the polls.
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As Greek Election Nears, Golden Dawn Rises On Austerity-Driven Despair
The fascist, immigrant-bashing party has shed boots for suits and toned down its rhetoric to emerge as Europe’s most dangerous political force.
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Greece, the Sacrificial Lamb
Having spent the last week in Athens talking to ordinary citizens, young and old, as well as current and past officials, I’ve come to the view that this is about far more than just Greece and the euro.
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Syriza Surrenders: Time for Renewed Popular Resistance
Now that Syriza has caved in to the creditors, the need for grassroots mobilization is more urgent than ever – a new cycle of struggles is ahead of us.
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With "Mental Waterboarding" Germany Tells Greece: Surrender Fiscal Sovereignty In Return for Bailout
A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night when the leaders of Germany and France presented Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with the ultimatum.
